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Goyal was speaking at the India-US Ministerial Energy Dialogue held at the US Department of Energy here on September 21. The Indian delegation was led by Goyal while the US side was led by Dr Ernest Moniz, the US Secretary of Energy.

Spread across Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, these projects will connect more than 850 megawatts (MW) of solar energy to the grid and will be among the biggest solar projects worldwide, the company said in filing to BSE.

"This year we are targeting about 7.5 percent to 8 percent growth. We are quite confident that upwards of 7.5 percent is what we can reasonably expect," Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das said at an ICRIER event here.

The US strongly supports rapid deployment of solar energy around the world, including in India and will continue to work to ensure that the best products and technologies are available to global consumers, an American Trade Representative official has said.

Describing solar energy as the ultimate solution to India's energy problems, he called upon Indian scientists to work towards developing more efficient equipment which could revolutionise the entire sector.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is committed to it "not merely by words but by action" as he believes in it passionately, Goyal said addressing senior officials from Centre and States at Vigyan Bhawan here on a workshop on "Grid Connected Solar Rooftops."

Continuum owns and operates 242 MW of wind power plants in Maharashtra and Gujarat, and has another 170 MW project under construction in Madhya Pradesh and more than 1,000 MW in development stages across six states in the country.

GiIC has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kakinada SEZ (KSEZ), a subsidiary of GMR Infrastructure, to set up an industrial park for the high-end Chinese equipment manufacturing companies, a BSE filing said.

Japan is now one of the world's four largest markets for solar panels and a large number of power plants are coming onstream, including two giant arrays over water in Kato City and a USD 1.1 billion solar farm being built on a salt field in Okayama, both west of Osaka.

Havells is also aiming to expand Promptec business to Rs 250 crore in next 3-4 years from its current revenues of Rs 35 crore. On being asked as how the multifold growth would be achieved, he said: "Promptec's technology would be benefited with our large marketing network.

SASTRA has inked a pact with Tata Power Trading Company (TPTCL) under which the latter will sell electricity generated from the facilities to the university for 15 years, the private solar firm said in a release here.

This year again the Festival of Innovations is all set to acknowledge, appreciate and encourage the culture of innovation amongst all sections of society, specially focusing on grassroot innovations From 7th to 13th March 2015 at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Besides an elaborate exercise of water conservation including setting up of water recycling plants will also be announced by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu in his maiden Budget address in the Lok Sabha on February 26.

B Ashok, chairman, IOC, wants to kill two birds with one stone- boost India‘s dependence on renewable energy, and free up electricity from the power grid for rural India. So, it has decided that more of its outlets should be powered by solar energy.

Efforts are also being made to increase coal production, strengthen electricity transmission network and get back gas- based power plants on stream, said Goyal, who also holds portfolios of Coal and New and Renewable Energy ministries.